Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · New York

James Desiderio, Inc.

Buffalo, NY · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Desiderio, Inc. runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

James Desiderio, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 231% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Desiderio, Inc. safety composite

James Desiderio, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

James Desiderio, Inc.: 3.7 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

James Desiderio, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.6 from 3.7 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Buffalo, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 231% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Ampco Distribution S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ampco Distribution Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Desiderio, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows James Desiderio, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (231% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

James Desiderio, Inc. TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 2.2

Where James Desiderio, Inc. falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in New York.

James Desiderio, Inc. (79 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate James Desiderio, Inc.
James Desiderio, Inc. (79 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

James Desiderio, Inc. has fewer employees than the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.3 7.0 8 0 0
2023 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2022 3.7 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · NY · Buffalo

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 532 employers in Buffalo, NY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ampco Distribution Services, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Combs Wholesale Produce Company 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingardia Bros. Produce Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16280 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mott Haven Substation 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hewlett District 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockmore Contracting Corp. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carver Construction Inc. 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo General Hospital 3,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital of Buffalo 2,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR WNY Independent Living, Inc. 1,988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaleida Health Oishei Childrens Hospital 1,765 FTE
NAT-TCR The Colonnade at Beckett Lake 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Tallahassee 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryan Steam, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Construction Services, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parker Interior Plantscape 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE CITE Armored Holly Springs 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roadways 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astoria Wire Products, Inc. 79 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.